Speech, Persuasion and how they relate to Meme Maps
Date: 2026-09-04
So Meme Maps are just going to be selections of Nostr events that produce their own independent graphs that plug into knowledge graphs which are just namespaces. Examples of namespaces would be wikidata, IMDB, Encyclopedia Britannica,
I should be able to go to a video, website, or social media post and just pull or auto generate a meme map for the content.
But what's the point of all that?
"Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Meme Maps are a form of speech. Yarvin talks about speech as power.
Without a power seeking goal function meme maps mean nothing. We arrive at the Rehoboam WestWorld Problem all over again.
Which brings me to my 6th personal maxim, If you don't know what you want you are retarded
What do you Paul want to be persuaded to do? What do you Paul want to persuade other people to do? What would a tool that can persuade people to become their best selves even look like?
I want to Cultivate Sovereign Cybernetic Religions, which would have AI systems mapping human behaviors as mememaps that the Preist Class tune to manipulate people. Privacy in such a system is a spectrum that can be turned to the individual or congregation, group collective operating under a priest
My instagram feed is retarded becuase I have not told it what I want.
I have an AI system guessing what I want and it just feeds me slop until I tell it to stop. I can tell it what I want. I don't know how to articulate what I want.
Well I can make a map of what I have consumed in the past and have that be my Algorithmic Reflection.